The Late Scholar: The New Lord Peter Wimsey / Harriet Vane Mystery

When a dispute among the fellows of St. Severins College, Oxford University, reaches a stalemate, Lord Peter Wimsey is charged with the task of resolving the issue. At first the dispute seems a simple difference of opinion about a valuable manuscript that some of the fellows regard as nothing but an insurance liability, which should be sold to finance a speculative purchase of land. The voting is evenly balanced. The warden would normally cast the deciding vote, but he has disappeared. And when several of the fellows unexpectedly die as well, Lord Peter and his wife Harriet set off on an investigation to uncover what is really going on at St. Severins.,